About

SYMMETRY is dedicated to increasing Longevity by maximizing brain and body function through mirror movement development (MMD).

Activity sessions are in San Diego, California.

The average human body, with its symmetric skeleton, symmetric exterior features, and symmetric weight distribution of organs, is physically designed for symmetric movement (similar to a car). Achieving true symmetry of the brain and body requires working to mirror asymmetrical movements, known as the practice of MMD.

Many of history’s greatest thinkers, creatives, and athletes practiced MMD, including Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Michelangelo, Mozart, Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Queen Victoria, Harry Houdini, Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, Lebron James, Kobe Bryant, Cristiano Ronaldo, Maria Sharapova, Patrick Mahomes, Mickey Mantle, Manny Pacquiao, Rodney Mullen, and more.

MMD is a lifestyle practice with endless application. It can be best explained as follows: Imagine if you were video recorded doing everything you do throughout an average day. Then, take that video footage and mirror flip it. Your goal of MMD is to learn how to do everything you see yourself doing in that video. In that mirror-flipped video, you’ll see yourself throwing with the other arm, kicking with the other foot, reading in mirror direction, writing in mirror direction with your other hand, typing on a mirrored keyboard, giving lefty handshakes, using lefty products like scissors, can openers, and more, clocks become mirrored, batting and board sports become switch-stance, etc.

While body science best understands the benefits of macro-movement MMD (such as sports play) in association with Longevity, brain science is still missing much of this understanding since micro-movement MMD (such as mirror reading, writing, and typing) are never encouraged culturally or scholastically. As a result, neuroscience lacks contemporary MMD practitioners for study to showcase all the brain benefits on a large scale over time.

This is where SYMMETRY comes in. SYMMETRY introduces people to the simple lifestyle practice of MMD, allowing Science to better see the long-term brain benefits. Such benefits can be noted in two of history’s greatest MMD practitioners: Leonardo da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin.

The concept of SYMMETRY is simple: introduce people to the lifestyle of MMD and encourage its practice together through mirrored and symmetric activities like mirror reading, writing, typing, ball, board, and disk sports, walking, hiking, cycling, swimming, yoga, and more.

SYMMETRY group activity session take place in San Diego, California, in the Ocean Beach area. In time, SYMMETRY will have a physical location for activity sessions with MMD product store.

SYMMETRY Founder, Jim Houliston, is an MMD trainer, ambidextrous artist, and author of the world’s first symmetric book titled, BIG3MMD: History’s Ambidextrous and the Benefits of Mirror Movement Development (MMD). Learn more at his blog, AmbiLife.org, and AmbiLife YouTube channel.